Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren't a genre, they're an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren't one unto themselves.
I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.
Oh that's a great idea, I think there's a lot of untapped horror that's left to be explored in super hero stuff, the implications of a lot of powers have a lot of pure horror potential
The most recent Fantastic 4 was apparently originally intended to lean into that, with some body horror shit when they got their powers and stuff, but the studios apparently removed the vast majority of it
This is really hard because horror thrives on being very low-budget and superhero films are generally expensive. So you get half-assed PG13 horror to try to get crossover appeal and it flops and no one tries again for a while.
And they all sucked and nobody gave a shit about them.
Even TWD, at its best was like "can this, MAYBE revive the zombie genre?!?!?"
A genre isn't "dead" because it isn't made anymore. They'll release a dozen capeshit movies before they realize its dead. A genre dies with the last release that has something to say.
what killed zombies? they were really popular for awhile
Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren't a genre, they're an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren't one unto themselves.
I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.
On that note I would be down for more superhero horror movies
Oh that's a great idea, I think there's a lot of untapped horror that's left to be explored in super hero stuff, the implications of a lot of powers have a lot of pure horror potential
The most recent Fantastic 4 was apparently originally intended to lean into that, with some body horror shit when they got their powers and stuff, but the studios apparently removed the vast majority of it
This is really hard because horror thrives on being very low-budget and superhero films are generally expensive. So you get half-assed PG13 horror to try to get crossover appeal and it flops and no one tries again for a while.
Shaun of the Dead
Idk about that, plenty of zombie things came out afterwords, I am Legend, World War Z, and The Walking Dead just off the top of my head
And they all sucked and nobody gave a shit about them.
Even TWD, at its best was like "can this, MAYBE revive the zombie genre?!?!?"
A genre isn't "dead" because it isn't made anymore. They'll release a dozen capeshit movies before they realize its dead. A genre dies with the last release that has something to say.
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